Oral history interview with David P. Weikart [electronic resource], 1998

Biographical Note

Psychologist.

Scope and Contents

Childhood: born Youngstown, Ohio, son of social workers; Oberlin College: B.A., psychology, 1949-1953; service in United States Marine Corps, 1953-1955; University of Michigan: Ph.D., education and psychology, 1956-1958; psychologist, chief diagnostician, MIchigan public school system; interest in early childhood education; formation of High/Scope Perry Study: research on education of economically disadvantaged preschool children, funding from Carnegie Corporation; experiments in infant education; changes in grantmaking philosophy; reminiscences of colleagues.

Subjects

• African Americans--Education (Preschool)
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Children--Intelligence testing.
• Children with mental disabilities--Education (Preschool)--United States.
• Children with social disabilities--Education (Preschool)--United States.
• Early childhood education.
• Endowment of research.
• Head Start programs--United States--Longitudinal studies.
• Infants--Development.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Perry Preschool Project (Ypsilanti, Mich.)--Research.
• Poor children--Education (Preschool)--United States.
• Psychologists--Interviews.
• Weikart, David P.--Interviews.
• Zane, Sharon, interviewer.

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